Take me to your leader - Questions for Quim

I recently talked with Quim Gil, Marketing Manager, Nokia. I thought I would share my Q/A with Quim’s permission. [Penguinbait] As someone who did not go to the Maemo Summit and who is perhaps too busy or too lazy to read through all the conjecture and hype to see what is real. I have some specific questions [...]

Nokia´s Contribution to the Linux Kernel

Lately there has been a lot of talk about commercial contributions to the Linux kernel, specifically from distribution vendors.

At the Linux Plumbers Conference in Portland, Oregon, Greg Kroah-Hartman of Linux kernel fame recently took a swipe, specifically at Canonical (blog post - google video). Now this may (or may not) come as a shock to you but the most popular Linux distribution (number 1 at distrowatch for many a moon) doesn't seem to 'give back'. In retaliation people have come out to defend Ubuntu but this got me thinking, where does Maemo and Nokia stand with regards to Linux kernel contributions?

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Maemo videos

I am back, with a blog on another service. I attended the Akademy 2008 and Maemo Summit 2008 conferences. I have created a video of both of them. These are no presentation videos but rather attempt to record the spirit of the time and place to a collection of video clips which are presented in a sequence on these short movies. Both conferences were quite interesting and a success. It was great to meet new people, especially on the Akademy conference, I have been participating many years in the Guadec conferences, but this was my first Akademy.

x11 benchmark on embedded systems

Unlike most would say, x11 does quite well. See our benchmarks comparing X11, FB, DirectFB on a Fresscale imx31. There you can see how x11-16 bitch-slaps everything… that’s even better on n8×0 and that’s why Canola runs fast

Blobby Volley 2 extra AI package

Blobby Volley 2 is a nice volley ball game in the spirit of clbuttic arcade volleyball. However, the default AIs are beatable by jumping in certain point, definitely too easy. Found some AIs over at esnips, and for convenience packaged them for maemo. .install file available as usual. Just install the package, start the game, go to options and select some AI.

Warning: these AIs aren’t easy to beat.